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Post by Rags on Jan 19, 2024 11:07:14 GMT -5
I have one simple question.
Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies....
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 19, 2024 12:16:38 GMT -5
I have one simple question. Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies.... I'm not sure of the exact number (I'm in the process of cataloging and purging stuff) but it's somewhere upwards of 10K (10K is usually the point I reach that triggers a purge, this will be the 4th time I exceeded it in my lifetime). -M
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 19, 2024 12:30:41 GMT -5
Just checked, I have just over 5K cataloged and I'd estimate that I only have about 40% of the short boxes and file cabinets currently cataloged...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 19, 2024 13:28:54 GMT -5
I have 67 short boxes and 13 long. There are various books unboxed lying around the house. If I ball park it I would say from 14-15K.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 19, 2024 13:36:44 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've done a count but I'd be surprised if I have much more than 5,000 actual paper-and-ink comics these days, plus a couple of hundred trades and hardcovers. Now, digital copies is a whole nother matter. I've got something like 35,000 of those, including virtually every DC published between 1934 and 1986 (romance comics excepted), along with several hundred fanzines and a slew of ebooks on comics history.
Cei-U! I summon the guesstimations!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 19, 2024 15:25:23 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers .
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 21, 2024 15:31:40 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers . I need to get back to Marvel Unlimited, I used to be big into digital until Amazon ruined comicvine.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 21, 2024 17:28:15 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers . I need to get back to Marvel Unlimited, I used to be big into digital until Amazon ruined comicvine. I pay 69 bucks a year. It's worth it.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 21, 2024 17:35:15 GMT -5
I have one simple question. Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies....
Currently, I'm just shy of 16,000 floppies, most of which (around 6900) are DC, roughly 3600 Marvel, and the rest (around 5000) are Independent, Charlton, Archie, and everything else, including defunct publishers and oddball Golden Age titles. As far as trades, collections and hardcovers, I haven't done a hard count, but I'd estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 or so. I'm bigger into the aspect of single issues, obviously. Generally, I don't buy duplicate trades or Omnibuses for things that I already have complete as floppies, although there have been exceptions (like the signed HC collection of Xenozoic Tales). The vast majority of my collection pre-dates 1992, with most falling in the silver, bronze and copper-age titles. Surprisingly, I do have things rather well organized; and I maintain my collection cataloging using the GCD "mycomics.org" feature, which allows me to track everything at a glance. I can look up a title, pull it from the collection and have a specific issue in my hands in about 30 seconds.
I don't count or include digital comics of any kind, other than occasionally reading old books which are now in the public domain, like stuff on Comic Book Plus or the Internet Archive.
I just don't get along well with digital comics.
As far as storage goes, I've got five 5-drawer lateral file cabinets about 90% full; I don't mess with long boxes or short boxes other than for sorting and temporary storage.
When I'm gone, the whole thing goes to my son, who already has a healthy collection of his own. God help him on moving this stuff!
Yes, I'm truly cursed with the mentality of an archivist.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 21, 2024 22:10:44 GMT -5
Physically, I have 0 comics. Digitally, I pretty much have every DC and Marvel published between 1935 and 2015, all of Warren, EC, Atlas/Seaboard, most of the major independents from 1979 through about 1999 (ish) and most Golden and Silver Age publisher's books, as well as the majority of Archie and Harvey, through the early-mid 1980s. There are some small gaps in there, in specific titles, at certain publishers. I also have quite a bit of European work, in English translations or in other languages and certain manga titles (more earlier days than the late 90s boom). I also have digital of most of the major fanzines/industry magazines, which is where I do a lot of my research (Comic Book Journal, Amazing Heroes, Jack Kirby Collector, Comic Book Artist, Back Issue, Alter Ego, FOOM, Amazing World of DC, Charlton Bullseye, Comic Book Feature, Comic Book Collector, Comics Interview, etc)
I used to have quite a library of comic book reference books, including the Ron Goulart histories, the Mike Benton series of histories, Jules Feiffer's book, Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson's pair, Fred Schott's Manga history, Gerard Jones' books, Jeff Rovin's encyclopedias and several more and have a chunk of those digitally, now.
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